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What do we really know about fiscal sustainability in the EU? : a panel data diagnostic

Afonso, António (contributor); … - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641707

Easy money through the back door : the markets vs. the ECB

Bibow, Jörg (contributor) - 2001

This brief assesses the experiences of Europe's policy regime in the two years since the introduction of the euro in 1999, particularly the performance of the European Central Bank (ECB), the institution in charge of conducting monetary policy for the euro area. Conventional accounts of European...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003353731

Bootstrap panel Granger-causality between government budget and external deficits for the EU

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2009

period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based … budget deficits to current account deficits for several EU countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France … deficit ; external imbalance ; real exchange rates ; EU ; OECD …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818006

Price dispersion in the Euro Area : the case of a symmetric oil price shock

Carstensen, Kai; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2009

This paper studies the causes of price dispersion in the euro area emerging in response to a shock that hits all member countries symmetrically. We use a panel VAR model which is estimated over the period 1996 - 2007 to generate impulse responses of a range of price and wage variables to an oil...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871916

Monetary policy transmission and house prices : European cross-country evidence

Carstensen, Kai; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2009

This paper explores the importance of housing and mortgage market heterogeneity in 12 European countries for the transmission of monetary policy. We use a panel VAR model which is estimated over the period 19952006 to generate impulse responses of key macroeconomic variables to a monetary policy...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872444

Short and long-run behaviour of long-term sovereign bond yields

Afonso, António - 2010

-term yields ; EU ; financial integration ; panel cointegration ; bootstrap …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732265

The price puzzle revisited : can the cost channel explain a rise in inflation after a monetary policy shock?

Henzel, Steffen; Hülsewig, Oliver; Mayer, Eric; … - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499532

Self-fulfilling crises in the Eurozone : an empirical test

De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2012

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Exports and capacity constraints : evidence for several euro area countries

Belke, Ansgar; Oeking, Anne; Setzer, Ralph - 2015

We argue that, under certain conditions, firms consider exports as a substitute for domestic demand. Our econometric model for six euro area countries suggests domestic demand and capacity constraints as additional variables for export equations. We apply the exponential and logistic variant of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300368

Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014

This paper explores the potential effectiveness of the ECBś Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT) program in safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable...

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